Sad day if true.. used to be my favourite room before they cut down to 5 tables.

Their workers are also on strike. A lot of picketing going on outside.

Parq comps are 75 cents/hour it seems?

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I've been told from a few different people. One of them was told by the HR dealers directly that they have removed poker.

Yes the dealers are on strike too. I see their picket signs every day on my way to and from work. Apparently Parq dealers were in a labor dispute too but it only lasted a few hours.

Wow, really?

It seemed it was just a few short years ago that all 7 casinos had poker rooms. If this Hard Rock news is true, that means we'll now be down to 4.

Gsky99.1%fallen,imoG

Also shared with Grand Villa. Its a 4-5 hour wait on the weekends.

Yup the wait at Villa akways insane.

Gotta get that bad beat!

wth?

Gobbledygeek is from Vancouver?

Not sure if anyone interested in this, looking for a local guy that wants to someone to grind with. Find it hard to get motivated to play some days and the guu i used to lives on the sumshine coast.

If youve played a lot here weve probablu played together as i used to play fulltime.

A little about me im 29, been playing for over 15 yrs. Came from Ontario specifically to play.

However ive settled down work a 8-4 job now but get ever other Friday off. Willing to help someone not as experienced as well. Im pro 420 so need someone okay with that as well.

Cheers

I was out at River Rock for lunch at the Buffet on Tuesday and stuck my head in the Poker room. There were two tables of 7 or 8 OMC's each, playing what looked to be painful nitty games of 1/2 or 1/3. There wasn't any money on the tables and just watching a few hands was enough to turn me into a bitter old man.

It used to be a fun action central kind of room when it was across the way with the rest of the Casino, with a big busy room full of splashy tables, 10+ table tournaments etc.... Now it's like looking into Purgatory, if not the Fourth Circle of Hell. It's like when Doyle dies, He'll end up in the game at River Rock. Sad!

Them Old Days Are Gone

stupid youtubes

Villa the place to play now.

I remember when the wsopc was at RR jam packed

Yeah,

I live in Richmond and I can't even step into the River Rock anymore.

****ty lighting, ****ty heating/air conditioning, short stacks that overbet AI preflop to avoid play on flop/turn/river. I feel my life wasting away everytime I step in there.

I checked out the Parq just recently and love it there. Great atmosphere and the games are great, but drinks and food (while good) are quite expensive.

This thread is so dead. Guys for a new guy can you if possible the pros and cons of playing in parq vs grandvilla?

If you like omaha play at the parq. villa seems to be more action for 1/3 but the parq can get quite busy on weekends. Parq feels more reggy. Both beatable.

Or you could just get off your morbidly obese ass and try them out

Harsh but fair

River Rock poker room rip?

Grand Villa the best room left.

Going to Vancouver for holidays and staying in Kitsilano area, on the google maps Grand Villa looks a bit far, is that so?, trying to convince wife to go let me play one night but it being over 30 minute taxi might decrease my chances.

Parq is a lot closer (maybe even a long walk / bicycle ride depending on where in Kits you are), plus it's right downtown where wife could entertain herself / sight see as you play.

Gnobrainer,imoG

Follow your Wife's lead on this one and don't bother. Live poker in Vancouver is dead.

I haven't been to the Parq, but it is safe to assume that it has the same reg's as Edgewater did; that means you will be facing soft collusion and team play on every hand, and you'll have to defend yourself against every angle in the book. As a tourist and a new face you will be targeted; the last time I played in the PLO at Edgewater, in two hours of play not one single hand went past the flop without me in it; They could not have been more open about targeting me.

And all that fun will be after a few hours on the wait list. Also, during your wait, you will see one or two regs who were not on the list before you got there, and did not call in before you put your name on, get seated because "oh, he called in before."

People say the Villa is the better room these days but it is out of the way from Kits and if it is better I'm sure it is only a matter of degrees. I've only played there a couple of times because it's out of the way from where I am too. I'd rather just log on to pokerstars than go through the hassle of playing live around here anymore.

It is not so long ago that there were 100 tables scattered around the local casino's all going gangbusters day and night, good games all over town, 10 table tournaments going off every day; you could have a go at the early-bird at Edgewater and if you bombed out of that one early you could hop on the train and have a go at the one at River Rock instead.

Unrestrained collusion, unabashed angle-shooting, and badly run poker rooms operated by unskilled dealers and inept floor people with a tendency to favor the regs over tourists and recreationals to the point of baffling the mind; all of these things combined to kill live poker here. Sad!

Not sure what to think of this above post here. First you say you'd rather log onto Pokerstars. To me grinding online seems like such a waste of time these days. It's all these video trained poker HUD wizards. No new players there anymore so you are fighting for pennies even at the small sit and go tables.

I used to play $1/2 cash games at Edgewater a few years back and didn't notice any collusion. Quite a few regs in the room but there were enough exploitable casuals to be profitable. Can anyone else chime in regarding collusion during live play around town? Is this at certain games (plo, tourneys, etc) and that's why I've never seen it?